How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology (review)

Scranton, Philip

doi:10.1353/tech.2006.0041

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“…However, while the epistemic nature of future research was often underdetermined, all types of collections were informed by the imagined social ties that would be created through curating and using samples/data. As in other technological realizations (Oudshoorn and Pinch, 2003), biomedical professionals' relationships to 'their' biobank collections were mediated by imaginations about future users. Visions of who the work and effort of assembling resources would be done for and how future users would relate to the collectives of curators sustained the data/sample labour.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data

2023

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Biobanking involves the assembling, curating, and distributing of samples and data. While relations between samples and data are often taken as defining properties of biobanking, several studies have pointed to the challenges in relating them in practice. This article investigates how samples and data are curated, connected, and made mobile in practice. Building on an analysis of data collected at five hospital-based biobanks in Austria, the article describes and compares biobanking in three types of biobank collections: ‘departmental collections’, ‘project-specific collections’ and ‘hospital-wide collections’. It draws attention to the invisible work going into this infrastructure and highlights the central role of visions to make samples and data travel to a different location and thus support biomedical research. It shows that while visions of future travels are often epistemologically uncertain, they are informed by social ties and relationships between the collectives involved in the curation of samples and data on the one hand and the imagined users on the other. Finally, we point to the importance that policy actors in this domain consider the aspects we identified—and, in particular, reflect the temporalities inherent in such a research infrastructure.

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On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data

2023

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“…Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars have demonstrated the intersections between science, technology, and society by highlighting how techno-scientific developments are embedded within socio-historical and technical contexts (Bijker & Law, 1994;Bloor, 1991;Haraway, 1991;Latour, 1987;Latour & Woolgar, 1986;Law, 1991). STS and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research, particularly the literature of Postcolonial HCI, HCI4D, and Indigenous HCI, has emphasized the need to capture socio-cultural and political dimensions of technologies to highlight complexities in situated cultural contexts (Abdelnour-Nocera, Clemmensen, & Kurosu, 2013;Ali, 2014;Hardy, Wyche, & Veinot, 2019;Irani, Vertesi, Dourish, Philip, & Grinter, 2010;Oudshoorn & Pinch, 2005;Wyatt, 2005). Abdelnour-Nocera et al ( 2013) acknowledge that "the idea of what constitutes a useful and usable system in different cultural contexts remains partially explored at the very least" (p. 201).…”

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Perspectives on Telehealth Projects in Northern Communities: Lessons Learned for Decolonized Participatory Design and Assessment

Leader

Goodrum

2021

CAIS/ACSI

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Northern and Indigenous communities face well documented challenges to accessing services and are impeded by significant infrastructure and technological limitations prompting the urgency to adopt innovative approaches to overcome these barriers. Telehealth – the means of accessing healthcare services and information across distance – promises to augment services to address access issues, yet notable utilization and structural constraints remain. Drawing on a recent community-based study capturing the perspectives from four Northern Saskatchewan communities on telehealth utilization, this paper draws attention to the importance of community collaborations as crucial to better decision-making and pathways forward. Specifically, this work identifies the need for decolonized participatory design (PD) and participatory technology assessment models that consider broader socio-cultural and technical factors to inform Indigenous technology design, adoption, and assessment for long-term community benefit. Further, to this is the need for community driven approaches and engagement through knowledge mobilization strategies that could better inform future community development.

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“…This is because technological evolution is an open-ended process, wherein various social groups have the opportunity to influence the design and functionality of technology to better meet societal needs. Oudshoorn and Pinch (2005) further elaborate on the evolution of technology by focusing on the user dimension, highlighting how users not only shape technology but are also shaped by it in return. This concept is pivotal as it illustrates that the advent of specific technologies establishes new norms and cultures within social interactions.…”

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Factors influencing farmer adoption of climate-smart agriculture technologies: Evidence from Malaysia

Aziz,

Ayob,

Ayob

et al. 2024

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As technology advances, people become increasingly dependent on technological tools to increase their work efficiency and productivity. Farming methods in the agriculture sector are also undergoing a shift from conventional to technology-driven modern agriculture practices, primarily because of their benefits and potential to mitigate the effects of climate change. However, the adoption rate of climate-smart agriculture technologies (CSAT) is considered to be very slow. Thus, this study was conducted to examine the factors that lead farmers to adopt CSAT in their agricultural practices. A sample of 185 farmers was used to investigate the main influencing factors in four contexts. The developed model was analyzed using the partial least squares structural equation modeling method. The results of this study suggest that institutions play a critical role as a contextual factor that leads individuals and societies to engage with CSAT, builds confidence, and convinces farmers to adopt these technologies.

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How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology (review)

Cited by 15 publications

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On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data

On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data

Perspectives on Telehealth Projects in Northern Communities: Lessons Learned for Decolonized Participatory Design and Assessment

Factors influencing farmer adoption of climate-smart agriculture technologies: Evidence from Malaysia

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